Collection of Russian proverbs, sayings and popular sayings in Russia translated into Italian, as testimony to the wisdom of its people capable of interpreting the essence of things in the best way.
Russian idioms
- Who owns the Volga owns Russia.
- You're one step away from him, but he's one step away from you.
- Don't scold the mirror if your face is crooked.
- House with a good neighbor, worth more than a few florins.
- Be humble as a lamb, diligent as a bee, beautiful as a bird of paradise, faithful as a turtle dove.
- A hen collects one seed at a time, but is satisfied.
- Pray to God, but continue to row towards the shore.
- Hurrying is only good for catching flies.
- There are no ugly women. There is only a little vodka.
- Chess and wine were born brothers.
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- The fisherman sees the fisherman from afar.
- If you live with wolves, you have to howl like a wolf.
- Falling is allowed, getting up is mandatory.
- If you live with wolves, you have to howl like a wolf.
- Anyone who denies the cat skimmed milk will give the mouse cream.
- With lies you can go on all over the world - but you can never go back.
- What cats like, women like.
- Friendship is like glass, once broken, it no longer repairs.
- Only a bad soldier does not hope to become general.
- God gives us nuts, but he doesn't crush us.
- Studying is light; not studying is darkness.
- Whoever is on the kettle does not boil it.
- The law is like the helm, it goes where you turn it.
Russian sayings
- Wine ferments. Stupidity never.
- The church is close, but the road is slippery, the tavern is far away, but the road is easy.
- There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
- The hen is not a bird, the woman is not a human being.
- In the forest the trees are unequal, so in the world men.
- Wealth is water: it comes and goes.
- There is light in the sun, there is heat next to a mother.
- Take a woman who knows what she's doing and will never let you say a word.
- Poverty needs a lot, the avarice of everything.
- Seven problems one answer.
- When money speaks, truth is silent.
- Moscow was not built in one day.
- If you hurry, you will make people laugh.
- A son is not a son, two children are half a son, three children are a son.
- It is the fastest bird that grabs the worm.
- An unwanted guest is worse than a tartar.
- Free cheese is only found in the mousetrap.
- With a helper a thousand things are possible.
- If the wives were good, God would have already married.
- Genius is simplicity.
- If you chase two rabbits I won't catch any of them.
- If you know you know a lot, you're getting old.
- You can't teach new tricks to an old cat.
Russian proverbs
- Do you have a secret? Trust it to your cat. Nobody will ever know.
- The Cossack horse must have the belly of an ant to endure hunger, the long fur to avoid suffering from the cold, the wide foot to march on the swamp and the ear stretched out to hear the voice of the enemy.
- There is honey on the tongue, and there is ice in the heart.
- Every woodcock praises its swamp.
- Who has a beautiful sister also has many friends.
- Measure seven times before cutting.
- Shortness is the sister of talent.
- However close you are to a certain goal, you are still not able to reach it.
- The rope is good when it is long; the speech is good when it is short.
- Take a woman who knows what she's doing and will never let you say a word.
- A kind word is like a spring day.
- As God for men, so the father for children.
- The pessimist is one who got informed.
- During the war, iron is more expensive than gold.
- There is no love so ardent that it cannot be cooled by a marriage.
- When things are going well, never try to make them better.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- I don't care about your gift, but about your love.
- In the monastery of others you don't go with your own laws.
- Where everyone steals, nobody is a thief.
- You get to know people well by playing chess and traveling.
- In the monastery of others you don't go with your own laws.
- Only the Kremlin is more beautiful than Moscow, only Heaven is more beautiful than the Kremlin.
- In any market there are two types of madmen: those who don't charge enough and those who charge too much.
